As the big day approaches, you can always count on the North’s theatres and concert halls to pull out all the festive stops. With the choice being as long as Santa’s list, we’re playing the little-helper role and rounding up the best of the bunch here, from award-winning theatre that will hit you right in the festive feels to Christmas concerts that don’t do subtle.
Written for the people of Manchester about Manchester: a fresh take on an old favourite as The Big Tiny return with another festive panto from director and playwright Ben Richards.
John Powell’s Oscar-nominated score, co-written with Sigur Rós’s Jónsi, gets a rare live-to-picture performance this Christmas.
A major new production of Alan Menken and Howard Ashman’s cult musical plays at Liverpool Playhouse this Christmas.
For anyone after an alternative night out in the run-up to Christmas, Silent Uproar’s interactive comedy horror invites you to lie, accuse your neighbours and vote to brutally ‘murder’ fellow audience members before the werewolves get to you first.
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